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Do you think Poison Ivy will be more of a Trap/Setup type or Mid range neutral type character?


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Crimzon-ET

Got Face Huggers?
I found it odd that unlike Swamp Thing Poison Ivy doesn't seem to have very many moves or normals involving vines. The only moves that did from what we saw was her throw,B+3, and Super. The rest of the time she was using stubby normals up close. I'm not sure if that's because she has up close normals that are different from her long range normals or if NRS is going in an unexpected route with her design.

It looks like Swamp Thing has long range moves involving vegetation so maybe Poison Ivy won't but will instead be focused on different uses for her using vegetation and The Green. It looks like NRS is making Swamp Thing more of a Zoning+Keep Away/Grappler hybrid like Kan Ra in Killer Instinct. So considering Swamp Thing's move set and specials being heavily based on Zoning/Keep Away. I think NRS might be doing something very different with Poison Ivy.

I still think she will be Trap based somehow though. Just minus the heavy Keep Away/Zoning aspect that we all thought she would have. Maybe her spacing is based more on Poison Traps and Evasive options. Making her more of a Trap based character that evades the opponent while they take damage from poison set ups. Or she could use the Traps to set up combo possibilities. I'm not sure but either way I'm really curious to see more of her move set and specials.
 

sranc

creep
I don't wanna read to far into it when all we have are 2 strings, but I agree. Fingers crossed for green traps
 

x TeeJay o

Canary Cry Gapless Pressure
I wanna see her interactions with canary. We owe her for this
 
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South

I'd rather SHOW than TELL ~ Poison Ivy
Holy Fuck POISON IVY! CHEETA! 2/3rd my mains revealed in one trailer? NRS WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN SMOKING RECENTLY? This is the perfect day!
 

South

I'd rather SHOW than TELL ~ Poison Ivy
If she doesn't start doing more plant stuff I'm gonna change my main to Audrey
♂ You traitor But I'll still play you n level up. I plan to main Poison Ivy.. second Cheeta/Black Canary and third catwoman
 

Lokheit

Noob
If she doesn't start doing more plant stuff I'm gonna change my main to Audrey
Don't worry, they've only shown some normals but there are glimpses of what to expect:

- Stun pheromones as you can see on Cheetah's face, probably close range (and hopefully a restand move).

- What seems to be her throw with the towering sprout.

- Her b3 (I think, I'm not used to Injustice common commands) already involves a vine whiplash.

- What seems to be her trait with the 2 little ones appearing from her back, but we don't really know how they will affect her gameplay.

- Her super which looks like it's going to compete for the top spot of epic cool supers.

- A lot of giant flower bud usage on her intro and outro which leads me to think we will see them on her gameplay, probably as traps and maybe even to transport herself around the stage.

I never thought she was going to be a zoner (I'd mention in the past that I think she could get one of those close/medium/far ranged attacks where you determine the range but mostly close range with great footsies) and I still think she's going to feature traps into restand vortexes.

Her moveset will involve a lot of flora when they show the complete list, we didn't see anything from any of the 3 revealed girls to be honest, so don't worry, everything will come at the right time.
 

myri

Time Warrior


So some quick speculation, I think this is her throw animation honestly. Looks like it needs some work though. If you look at her feet during the animation she sort of floats above the flower and tracks away from it slightly.





Characters introduction animation one. I think this is the one where we start with Ivy, so Ivy>Catwoman>Ivy.



Character introduction animation two (Cheetah>Ivy>Cheetah) and Ivy's B3, looks like a vine summoned from the ground or something. Also just noticed that the crocodile or alligator or whatever that is hanging in the air in the background lights up when Ivy jumps so it's an interactable, probably to jump off of I guess?



Character introduction two again and part of her super animation.



On the left we can see some sort of fast jab string that ends with a launching kick, after that is what I think is her F3 but whoever is doing the combo drops it. Interestingly if you go and watch the video on YouTube and slow it down you can see how the plants on Ivy's back actually wrap around her arm and bite the opponent when she does that jab string. What also appears to be her jump in 3 has a huge downward hitbox too.

On the right we see the same string as in a previous gif, the second hit may be a low but I'm not sure. The string ends in a leg grab of some sort which could be the end of that string or a special on its own.

In the center is of course her win pose with the queen sitting on her throne.

It's also interesting to note that while in most of the gifs Ivy has a more regular skin tone but in some she appears to have a more green skin tone so that might be something to do with her shaders or it might just be the lighting of a particular stage. I'm also curious as to why we don't see the two plants on Ivy's shoulders during her characters intros, makes me think that they could be a gear piece but probably aren't, I imagine they would have a bunch of different vegetation options for her gear, just an observation.

Sorry for kind of bad gif quality, I never made any before but yeah. So what do you guys think?
 
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sranc

creep
I think that fast jab string will f up armor and I think that NRS threw the source material in the trash when designing her. I don't know what to expect anymore.
 

myri

Time Warrior
Nothing like what people think...

So not rush down because that's all I could think of based on the tiny bits of footage we've got so far. I really do hope she is a trap/setup character, it would really suit her.
 

myri

Time Warrior
We in there with the low vines lads, looks like meterburn to launch for a combo as standard. Check out that swag string leading into. Also the plant mace, not sure what to think of that but it's interesting. That string leading in looks like a low starter.

 
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